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Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / September 2005ER Diagram tool
Hi all, i been looking around and i was wondering if one of you guys know of a tool similar to PowerDesigner : http://www.sybase.com/products/developmentintegration/powerdesigner Anybody know of any alternatives that run on the mac? thanks in advance Luis R. Rojas > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Luis R. Rojas Visual Paradigm is good (http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/) Eclipse - the well known IDE has many UML/ER/andbusiness process plugins. (www.eclipse.org) On 15/09/2005, lrojas wrote in message <1126810134.488906.95790@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>: > i been looking around and i was wondering if one of you guys know of a > tool similar to PowerDesigner : > http://www.sybase.com/products/developmentintegration/powerdesigner It's just another development environment. There are at least 40 for the Mac. What is it that you actually want when you ask for 'similar' ? Are you restricted to Java ? Or to J2EE ? Or do you just want to write programs and not care what language they're in ? Do you need cross- platform compiled code ? Simon. i would like soemthing as simple as being able to make the Entity-Relationship diagrams fro Database Objects, be able to put in graphic format how tables in an Oracle Database link to each other? wich fields are Primary key and wich ones are Foreign Keys. If this also generates SQL code it would be a plus but right now i would be content with the diagraming part. thanks in advance. Luis R. Rojas > i would like soemthing as simple as being able to make the > Entity-Relationship diagrams fro Database Objects, be able to put in [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > If this also generates SQL code it would be a plus but right now i > would be content with the diagraming part. XCode will let you do the diagrams, and even produce code form the diagram (for MySQL or XML). You probably already have it /Developer/Applications/ Read up in its on like help on its "Design" menu.  SignatureDavid Phillip Oster > XCode will let you do the diagrams, and even produce code form the > diagram (for MySQL or XML). You probably already have it > /Developer/Applications/ Read up in its on like help on its "Design" > menu. This is incorrect in several ways. Xcode contains ER-style data modeling tools for the Core Data framework that's part of Cocoa. This produces data models that can be used by Core Data to manage and persist your object graph using several different persistent store types, including SQLite (not MySQL) and XML. The data modeling tool in Xcode is not a general database-design ER tool. -- Chris > > XCode will let you do the diagrams, and even produce code form the > > diagram (for MySQL or XML). You probably already have it [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > -- Chris Chris is right: I should have written SQLite, not MySQL. The original poster wanted an E-R graphing tool. I point to a portion of XCode that does that, possibly well enough. SignatureDavid Phillip Oster > Chris is right: I should have written SQLite, not MySQL. > The original poster wanted an E-R graphing tool. I point to a portion > of XCode that does that, possibly well enough. Right, my point is that the Core Data modeling tools are specific to Core Data and cannot reverse-engineer arbitrary databases or XML into ER diagrams, and cannot generate SQL or XML schema with which to generate databases or XML. These are two features the original poster specifically brought up that disqualify the Core Data modeling tools that are included by default with Xcode 2.0 and later. Actually though, you *are* correct for people who have both Xcode 2.1 and WebObjects 5.3 installed. (WebObjects 5.3 developer tools are included free with Xcode 2.1 as an optional install.) There is an Xcode-based modeling tool for the Enterprise Objects Framework in WebObjects 5.3 that includes a subset of EOModeler.app's functionality. EOModeler.app is also included; it can reverse-engineer an EOModel from an existing database, you can work with this EOModel in either EOModeler.app or the Xcode EOModel tool, and you can generate an SQL schema from an EOModel. So really, you're right, if the original poster installs WebObjects. -- Chris |
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